VOA Mandarin: Interpreting Xi's latest anti-corruption statements
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FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech at a dinner marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sept. 30, 2024.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping last week stressed at a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party Discipline Inspection Commission that "the fight against corruption is always on the way.” A new group of officials has confessed to crimes. Their confessions were similar to those of past officials publicly brought down by internal probes. They also call into question how effective Xi’s decade-long anti-corruption push has been.Click here to read the full story in Mandarin.
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